Nadya Suleman
publication date: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 (part of Winter 2019)
category: 
Controversy
clue: It wasn't the first six kids that made her notorious. It was the other eight.
explanation: Suleman, dubbed "Octomom" by the press, sparked headlines in 2009 for giving birth to octuplets who were conceived via IVF while she was already raising six other children as a single parent. more…
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, Matthew Preston, Erik Bates, and Stan Iwanchuk
trivia: Scott intended this goo for publication on January 26, 2019, the tenth birthday of the octuplets, but a typo prevented that from happening.
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